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@Handre Race. It's race.

Socialism and Capitalism aren't on-and-off switches a country flips between. It's a spectrum. The more any country embraces free-market ideas, the wealthier it gets. see: China The more a country embraces socialist fantasy, the poorer it gets. see: South Africa

Trying so hard to tiptoe around the racial issue here

I find it funny how so many situations that allegedly never happen to white people have happened to me (i.e. getting harassed by cops or having random people call the cops on me over nothing). Maybe I just give off a certain vibe, idk.

It's remarkable how much goodwill the right generated after the left/liberal insanity of 2020-2022 (covid endless lockdowns, BLM riots, etc). It's equally remarkable how much they completely squandered every bit of this goodwill with the current Trump administration.

Examples: Yellowstone and its spinoffs, Stranger Things, WandaVision The only genuine anti-suburban movie or show I can think of recently is Don't Worry Darling.

I feel like in movies and TV, there used to be a lot of anti-rural and anti-suburban undertones, but lately, that has changed. The message is now that rural and suburban areas can be great (even better than cities in fact) as long as they are racially diverse (con't).

Sydney is like Toronto and Vancouver in that the majority of the population are non white, but the vast majority of the homeless population are white.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet It wasn't right and fair that large portions of historic cities were destroyed on behalf of suburbia in the 1950s and 60s. Reap what you sow.

Reread my post you just replied to. Same answer. BTW, it doesn't mean they can never change zoning. It's just right and fair to get a supermajority of the neighborhood to agree to it. In the meantime land between the SFH neighborhoods (on the bigger roads zoned for commercial and higher density) continue to get redeveloped.

Autocentric suburbs are pretty weird and a historical anomaly.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Twitter isn't the real world, and in the real world, Trump is becoming massively unpopular.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Yes, and Trump is completely destroying any goodwill that the public had for the right. The Iran War and its disastrous consequences won't be forgotten anytime soon. Not to mention destroying the US's relationships with most of its allies.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet You can retrofit a historic home with climate control. It is doable. The whole idea of historic neighborhoods is that your life doesn't revolve around your car to begin with. Also, we could build new homes like this if zoning laws allowed it. But they rarely do.

Because people are more practical and care more about tangible stuff for their home. Living in a house with tiny rooms, terrible climate control, no garage or yard, and lacking practical features would suck, no matter how "historical" it looks on the outside. Wildly different than visiting other places on vacation to take "we were there!" pictures.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Yep, and I'm not interested in preserving the 1950s-1990s era of suburbia and malls and demigorgons and the Upside Down either. If people want to LARP in some sort of Cold War era existence with no apartment buildings in a 30 square mile radius, don't expect my support.

@AbstractEntityZ @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Historic protection goes way beyond that. But again, I don't really care. That's your issue, not mine. Not interested.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Like I said, people want to live in certain specific cities. They don't want to live just anywhere.

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet There are mountains. You can't build in extremely mountainous terrain. And some of that terrain is protected national park land, but I'm sure you're against the existence of national parks, aren't you?

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Why do the suburbs have the right to never see their neighborhoods change at all but historic neighborhoods don't have that right?

@AbstractEntityZ @therenkaist @CompletedStreet Because it was promised to them by the govt with zoning. If it wasn't for other neighborhoods, and they want it, then they should lobby the politicians for it too.

Although the Alto high speed rail line is a major exception, because that has seen absurdly high levels of opposition.

Even Doug Ford, who has basically become the face of opposing public transit and supporting cars in Canada, still implemented the construction of the Ontario Line in Toronto. The level of opposition to transit in the US goes way further than in Canada (con't).

It 's bizarre how inner city Calgary and Edmonton actually vote Conservative at a far higher rate than inner cities in the reddest of US red states vote Republican. And yet, Calgary and Edmonton have way more density and transit than those cities do. What is up with that?

@grok @PeterAPatriot @elonmusk Because a lot of leftist violence isn't deadly. A lot of it is low level violence like beating people up but not killing them.

**Right-wing extremism (esp. racially/ethnically motivated) has produced more deadly domestic attacks and comparable or higher fatalities than left-wing since 9/11, per GAO, FBI, and DHS data.** Far-left extremism has caused very few deaths. Islamist-inspired attacks caused notable fatalities too (e.g., Orlando), but left-wing stands out for minimal lethal violence in federal tracking. Actual attacks don't match the poll's "justification" numbers either way.

The left is the party of violence

@dbsb3233 @therenkaist @CompletedStreet We'll see about that. Either way, I don't see the mass immigration stopping anytime soon. There's a temporary lull right now, but it's not going to last. The only way it will actually stop is with significant revolutionary action.

@AbstractEntityZ @therenkaist @CompletedStreet And we're not gonna let that many in. Even though the leftists keep trying.